**Our Halloween was soggy and very wet! That did not prevent us from having great fun! Our students were transformed into butterflies, bats, zombie princes, princesses, ninjas and more! Was that a mummy for a teacher??!! The all school parade traveled up and down our school hallways and in the auditorium. Back in the classroom, we feasted on eye balls and bones (thanks to Blaine's mom!) as well as more traditional fruits and veggies. Thanks to everyone who came out to help. A special shout out to our wonderful room parents!
**Wednesday, November 6th is our 50th Day of School! We will be half way to 100! The students have been doing some comparing and contrasting of the 1950's and the present. This Wednesday, we will mark the day by dressing up like the 50's, having a sock hop and working on math learning stations surrounding the number 50. We will even create a special 50's treat. It will be nut free and gluten free. The students can dress up like the 50's on Wednesday. It can be as simple as a white t shirt and jeans, slicked back hair, a poodle skirt and ponytail.
**Monday, November 4th--Picture retake day.
**The students will participate in a BUS EVACUATION DRILL on Tuesday, November 5th.
**No School Monday, November 11th--Veteran's Day observance.
**Don't forget to send in your permission slip and money for our Field Trip to BROOKFIELD ZOO. Trip is Friday, November 15h. I have one chaperone, but could use 2-3 more. Students and teachers will ride the school bus. Parent chaperones will carpool. We will pay for your parking. The time frame is 8:30 am-2:00 pm. Come join us!
**Students have been taking the "Geography Challenge." Our next challenge question will be revealed on Tuesday. Go Green team!
**On Monday, we will begin our next cross curricular theme--BEARS. We will become Bear Experts. Our field trip will have a special classroom experience! We will turn our nature table into a bear artifacts table. We will be linking our study of bears to common core standards.
**In Friendship Club this week, Ms. Bell Bey did activities relating to listening and following directions.
**In Mr. Packer Math Enrichment this week, Mr Packer did interactive activity on the concepts Greater Than and Less Than.
**No School Wednesday, Thursday, Friday-November 27th-29th--Thanksgiving observance.
This week:
This week it was all about bats! We took the fright out of these amazing creatures. The students listened to informational texts as well as fiction texts on bats. They viewed bat skeletons both on line and in picture diagram form. The students learned about bat habitats, bat physiology and bat diets. The students learned that bats and humans have something in common--we are mammals. Ask your child what a mammal is. Students sought information about bat types, bat characteristics (super long fingers and a thumb and baby bats (They are pink and called pups.) The students also read about and viewed a skeleton. Who have more bones--a bay or a 5-6 year old???? the students have been having great fun putting together to the skeleton puzzle and "bone" pieces. Our station day activities for this week included web of words activity, bats and balls counting activity, greater than and less than treat sort, cut and glue categorization and creating bat origami. (Many thanks to Colin's grandma!)
Reading/Social Studies: The students continue work in Unit 2 Friends in our Treasures Reading series. They built background knowledge about how friends in other parts of the world share activities. The students listened to the Big Book story, "Friends Around Us." They made connections looking and listening to the activities and places in the world where friends lived. We located the countries on the map so students could get an idea of where the friends lived. The word a was added to our sight word list. The reviewed isolated sounds of M, S, A, P. Our Robust Vocabulary words included WORLD, GAMES, PLEASANT, ASSIST and HONEST. The students worked on asking questions about the Big Book story. They also used the retelling cards to review the order of events in the story. Our puppet, Mr. Happy assisted the students in practicing the blending of letter sounds to create 3 letter words. The students used their sound boxes to isolate where they heard the Pp sound--at the beginning or end of the word. We read our pre decodable story, "I Am a Doctor." The students tracking skills are continuing to develop. They also read their pre decodable paper story, "I Am." The students practiced reading to a partner for fluency development and discussed the characters and setting of the story. The students continued work on their common core project creating a sentence web surrounding the facts about pumpkins that they will use in their writing and illustrating. Workstations this week included read it and add to it, leveled readers comprehension and fluency, creating a friend puppet and reading their story to the puppet and writing about it, sentence starter....We like.....to tell about what you and friend like to do and Magic Reading 1 app--3 letter words--tap the box record the sound-tap the picture box--did you make the word?
Math: The students worked on the counting sequence 1-50. They played--"What comes before--What comes after." They also continued to work on the concepts greater than and less than using a variety of activities with partners and in small group math stations. The students continue work on recognizing pattern block shapes and using the shapes to create a design depending upon the number of blocks. (ie--can you create a design with 7 shapes? 9 shapes?) The students were excited to begin work in their new calendar books for the month of November. They are now counting the number of ten frames on our calendar and beginning to see the relationship between ten frames and counting by 10's!
Writing: The students continue to work on their Starting Corner Capitals. They used the wooden pieces to form the letters L, K, H. They then used their mini boards with chalk and sponges to practice formation. The students are working on their informational book about pumpkins where they will write a fact and illustrate. We will be creating a talking book for you to listen to!.
Technology: In reading this week, the students used the apps Word Wizard and Magic Reading 1 in small groups and individually to work on CVC word formation and sound blending. In math, students continue to work with the apps Monster Squeeze, Sam Phibian, Geoboard and Dot to Dot Lite for counting, number sequencing and greater than and less than concepts.
Literature: "Cinderhazel," "Day of the Dead," "Skeletons," "Skeleton Meets Mummy," "Fantastic Bats," "Skeleton Hiccups," "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat," "Even Monsters Need Haircuts," "Bats Big Game," "Amazing Bats," "Extremely Weird Bats," "Pumpkin Soup." "Pumpkins, "Your Skeleton."
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